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Chapter 141: The Deterrent Power of Boss Tie
Song Tiesheng always felt that if there had been no earthquake, he would have been a very civilized and polite child.

Instead of the big gangster who, as the uncles and uncles in the railway system say, would be the first to be shot if a public trial was held in the railway system.

I have become a big bastard in the eyes of my elders, all because of the earthquake three years ago.

After the earthquake, the railway workshop quickly built temporary sheds. After all, they were the boss of the railway. When other places were short of supplies and couldn't even build shacks, they had already built houses with machine-made red bricks.

However, there were always aftershocks and no one dared to move in. There were also many rumors at that time. Every now and then there were always idiots who spread rumors, saying that they had secret information and the country said that at a certain time on a certain night, there would definitely be a big aftershock.

Then no one dared to sleep and waited outside with their eyes open all night long. They didn't dare to stay in the nice rooms for fear that an aftershock would occur in the middle of the night and bury themselves and their families inside.

So during those months, it became popular in the railway workshop to leave the newly built temporary sheds empty and build shacks with various materials.

Song Tiesheng thought this was extremely stupid. The national leaders were not stupid at all. When there was a major aftershock, they didn't use the broadcast to notify the people to evacuate, but used those alley dwellers who gossiped all day to notify them verbally?

But he didn't dare to gamble because his father died in the earthquake, a tragic death.

When his father was on duty and inspecting the railroad tracks with a flashlight in the middle of the night, an earthquake occurred. The railroad tracks were twisted like a pretzel by the earthquake, and a big crack appeared on the ground. His father's foot was stuck in the railroad tracks and half of his body fell down.

Just as a colleague was about to go and rescue people, the big crack in the ground was kneaded back to its original shape like plasticine, and only half of his father's body, the lower half, was found after the earthquake.

As for the upper body, the earthquake helped to turn it into mud and buried it in advance.

There was only a mother and two younger sisters left at home, so Song Tiesheng didn't dare to gamble. He had just lost his father and couldn't be without other relatives.

Like everyone else, he looked for an empty space nearby to build a shack. After finding a place, he temporarily made a circle with stones and bricks to indicate that the place was occupied.

As a result, when Song Tiesheng took a good spot and went to the railway warehouse to find someone to get tarpaulin and wood, and then came back, the circled area was occupied by a gangster from the railway system at that time, who was starting to build a house.

At that time, the gangster was the number one figure of the younger generation in the Bingyang Railway System. He was well-known and always wore a bayonet on the left side of his waist and a Type 54 rifle on the right side. Many people did not dare to mess with him, including Song Tiesheng.

Song Tiesheng had too many fights in the past two years and had forgotten how that fight started. It seemed like he went to beg the other party to return the place to him, but the other party told him to get out or he would break his legs, leaving the Song family without a man.

Then he got anxious. Let's make the Song family without a man? I'll make your family extinct first.

Then he picked up a shovel used for building shacks and hit the other person on the head. After only a dozen hits, the bastard fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth. Song Tiesheng then used the shovel to smash the other person's eggs.

Later, the bastard woke up and became a fool. Now he is very polite. He is in his twenties, and he wears open-crotch pants and sits at the door every day, peeing and playing in the mud, and he laughs at everyone he sees.

And because he, Song Tiesheng, killed the original big gangster, he became the new big gangster in the eyes of everyone in the Bingyang railway system.

A group of brothers who admired him started to hang out with him and fight with him all day long.

In order to prevent Song Tiesheng from being arrested, his mother gave her railway job to the other party's nephew, because the nephew said he would help support his gangster parents in their old age.

Song Tiesheng took over his father's job and joined the maintenance section.

Last year, with the help of a friend, his mother went to work as a cleaner in the railway hospital and did odd jobs as a temporary worker to earn a living.

The family was barely able to survive after the earthquake, but not long ago, perhaps due to overwork or poor health, his mother contracted tuberculosis in the hospital.

His mother didn't have a formal job, and the railway didn't provide public medical care, so she had to pay for it herself. After deducting family expenses from Song Tiesheng's own salary, it was not enough to pay for his mother's treatment.

Although Song Tiesheng often fought with a group of friends before, they never robbed people for money. They considered themselves to be heroes, not bandits who robbed whatever they saw.

Last time, I was really forced into a desperate situation, so I thought about the subsidies given to the escort militiamen, and I wanted to steal some money to save my mother's life.

As a result, he was ambushed by the enemy militia and was almost stabbed to pieces by a bayonet.

The leader of the other party was quite considerate. He didn't beat him, but gave him 100 yuan as emergency aid. Song Tiesheng knew in his heart that without the 100 yuan given by the leader, his mother would be gone.

He always remembered that the other person was standing on the train and called himself Zhongping Hu Saner.

That momentum and energy impressed Song Tiesheng, and he always wanted to meet the other party.

But he was too embarrassed to visit because he had no money to pay back the owner, and what would it mean to visit with empty hands?

Hearing the name Zhongping Hu Saner ringing in his ears again, Song Tiesheng rubbed his eyes and confirmed that Xie Hushan in front of him was the one who gave him money that day. A look of surprise appeared on his face:
"Brother, is it you?"

But then I felt a little embarrassed. This big brother came to me in the middle of the night. He must have encountered an urgent problem and needed money, so he wanted me to pay him back.

"You know him? That's fine." The middle-aged man glanced at Song Tiesheng's expression, returned the five dollars in his hand to Xie Hushan, and spoke earnestly:
"If you really regard Tiesheng as your buddy, then don't take him to a fight. If he dies, the Song family will be extinct."

"Don't worry, big brother. I'm definitely not here to let Tiesheng fight with me." Xie Hushan smiled at the other party and said affirmatively.

The middle-aged man then walked back home along the same path.

"Brother, are you waiting for money?" Song Tiesheng said to Xie Hushan a little awkwardly:
"Can you give me some time? I'm sure..."

"Everyone who knows me calls me Third Brother." Xie Hushan said this as he took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and counted them.

After seeing the stack of banknotes, Song Tiesheng could no longer continue to ask Xie Hushan to wait for a few days.

The other party brought so much money with him, so of course he was not here to collect the debt for the hundred dollars.

Xie Hushan counted out five hundred yuan and handed it to Song Tiesheng: "Brother, to make a long story short, you take this money first and help me do something."

"Big... Third brother... what... mean? I'll help you with the matter. Money..." Song Tiesheng took the money and asked Xie Hushan.

He felt that Xie Hushan was unlikely to pay him to help him fight. He had seen this at the train station last time. This big brother and the people around him were all "mother and son" who liked to fight. They were all ruthless people who wanted to find some trouble when they had nothing to do. They were happier than Chinese New Year when they heard about a fight.

If there is a fight, there is definitely no need to call outsiders like myself.

"I'd like to ask you to help me check if there are any goods from the Bingyang Steel Pipe Factory in your railway freight yard. I don't mean any other meaning. If there are, can you delay the shipment for ten days or half a month? You're a railway man and you know many people there. I'll keep this money for you to help with." Xie Hushan briefly recounted what happened, including how his sister was almost raped, how the company commander was detained, etc. He observed Song Tiesheng's expression and said.

Song Tiesheng digested what Xie Hushan said and nodded:
"I see. The brats from the pipe factory used the manuscript to scare the girls from Brother San's team. They succeeded and then our sister was almost bullied? What else can I say, Brother San? This is our family's business. Leave it to me. From today on, if the guy from their factory can get out of Bingyang, you will twist my head off and put it on the railroad track and wait for the train to crush it."

He returned the money to Xie Hushan: "You can't use this thing. Let me tell you, this is the easiest thing to do. What's the name of the girl who was bullied in your team?" Xie Hushan insisted on stuffing the money into his pocket: "Spend the money if you need to. It may not work if you just talk."

Moreover, Xie Hushan really didn't know what the name of Mr. Qiu Sanye's granddaughter was. They were three or four years apart in age and had little contact. He turned his head and looked at Chen Daxi:

"Daxi, what is the name of Mr. Qiu Sanye's granddaughter?"

"Qiu Xiaoxia?" Chen Daxi said after thinking for a while.

He knew a lot about the girls of marriageable age in Zhongping, and was hoping to find a local wife in the next two years, so he collected a lot of information.

Xie Hushan said to Song Tiesheng: "Qiu Xiaoxia."

"Okay, Third Brother, just follow me to the cargo yard now. I'll call a few buddies to help me testify, and then tell the uncles and uncles at the cargo yard that I found a rural girl and we're going to get engaged soon. They've caused trouble for me because of my girl." Song Tiesheng said to Xie Hushan:

"If they don't hand over those two bastards, we'll have to rely on tractors to deliver goods from now on."

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At the Bingyang Steel Pipe Factory, the driver who had taken Xie Hushan to the railway workshop hurried back to the factory leadership's duty room.

The person on duty tonight was Deputy Factory Manager Li Xingyuan. He called a few workers with whom he had a good relationship to play cards together early in the morning. Li Xingyuan had good luck tonight and had won more than 20 yuan before dawn.

"Director Li..." After the driver came in, he looked at the other three people and lowered his voice to speak to Li Xingyuan. Li Xingyuan spoke to him first and instructed:

"Go, go, go get me a bottle of drink from the refrigerator."

The driver walked quickly to the refrigerator against the wall and opened it. It was filled with all kinds of food and drinks, including roast chicken, braised beef, prawns, sea cucumbers, beer, white wine, and various sodas.

The driver opened a bottle of soda and handed it to Li Xingyuan. Li Xingyuan took a sip and then breathed a sigh of relief:
"What's the matter? Didn't Lao Liu ask you to help drive the brigade secretary of a certain brigade to mediate with the woman?"

The driver lowered his voice and whispered in Li Xingyuan's ear:

"Director Li, regarding the matter of Director Liu's child in the wire drawing workshop... I think the other party used his connections in the railway."

Li Xingyuan was immediately frightened. He was the deputy factory director in charge of supply and marketing. He was responsible for the supply and shipment of goods. If the other party really used their connections in the railway to not ship the goods properly, he would be the first to be affected!

He immediately threw the playing cards on the table and put the money into the drawer:

"No more playing, let's go!"

The three people who had been accompanying him on the night shift got up and left the duty room. After everyone left, Li Xingyuan looked at the driver:

"What's going on? Is the news reliable? Didn't Lao Liu tell me that the other party is from the countryside?"

The driver recounted what he had seen and experienced. He said he saw with his own eyes two young men from Zhongping go to the railway workshop and knock on the door. One of them came out and hurriedly left with the two of them.

"Where's Lao Liu? Call him over here." Li Xingyuan lit up an imported Friendship cigarette and said to the driver:

"He's always looking for trouble for me. Tell him to come here quickly!"

The driver hurried over. Li Xingyuan took a puff of his cigarette, feeling a little uneasy.

To be honest, as long as the factory makes money, the county leaders have to flatter the factory cadres and make them pay taxes.

These factories can be arrogant in front of anyone, but they are afraid of offending this group of iron bosses.

The railway has no shortage of business, and railway cars are always in short supply. Even a worker who tightens screws on the railway has to be a person that all the factories want to flatter. You never know which of your words may offend these capricious railway bosses, and you never know which ragged worker has what connections.

After all, railways and local areas are completely different things.

You thought it was no big deal to offend a railway worker eight hundred miles away, but just a word from him could make your factory unable to get even a single railway car's worth of transportation capacity for half a year.

Tie Lao Da is the living father of all factories in this era.

Moreover, the county and the factory are currently studying this and say that the business has developed well in the past two years, so they are planning to separate the wire drawing workshop and build a wire drawing factory. The factory director and senior party officials have just talked to Li Xingyuan and hope to give him more responsibilities and let him be the director of the wire drawing factory once it is built.

Everyone in the factory knows that Lao Liu is his man and is the director of the wire drawing workshop. After the factory is built in the future, he will definitely be the best candidate for the deputy director who is in charge of production.

"Ring, ring, ring..." Before the driver brought people back, the phone in the factory leader's duty room suddenly rang!
Li Xingyuan picked up the phone: "Hello?"

"Is this the management factory? This is the railway freight yard. Ask your workers to come and load the goods and take them away to make room for the freight yard. There is a batch of coal that needs to be delivered urgently. Wait for the train to be sent away! We will be here at daybreak!" said a cold and arrogant voice on the other end of the phone.

Li Xingyuan's heart sank immediately, and he greeted warmly: "Hey, which leader is on duty today? Who are you?"

"I'm Zhang Ming." The other party said stiffly.

"Brother Zhang, I'm Xingyuan. What's the matter? Last time we drank together, I punished myself with a bowl of white wine. Did you forget? Didn't you tell me that you had booked the wagon for me? Why did you arrange for coal to be added? I'm in a hurry. People in Luzhou Province are waiting for this batch of goods to produce bicycles."

"Coal is an important strategic material for the country's power generation! Power plants all over the country are waiting for Yaoshan's coal to generate electricity! Who are you? How can you have a higher priority than coal? Can't you tell the difference? Damn it, you work for a few days to earn a little money and then forget your roots!" Zhang Ming cursed in a vulgar tone:

"Hurry up and send someone to take it away. If you don't take it away before daybreak, we will deal with it ourselves! Don't say I didn't notify you!"

"Brother! Brother Zhang! I'll be there right away! Please wait for me, I'll come and talk to you in person!" Li Xingyuan spoke hurriedly, but the other party did not respond and hung up the phone directly.

Li Xingyuan opened the drawer, took out two thousand yuan, put it in his handbag, and hurried out.

As soon as he went out, he saw the driver coming with the workshop director. Before Lao Liu asked, Li Xingyuan said to the driver:

"Tell the car team to arrange another car, load the two boys and the militia comrade from Zhongping into the car, and follow me to the cargo yard."

"What's wrong?" The workshop director who came over asked in confusion with dark circles under his eyes, "It hasn't been settled privately yet."

"You're still fucking doing it privately! Didn't you say your son was bullying a rural girl? Why did he hire someone from the railway? Old Liu, fuck you! If your son ruins my business, I'll fucking make your whole family beg for food!" Li Xingyuan glared at the workshop director and cursed:
"Where are you going, hurry up and bring your people with me!"

(End of this chapter)